The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.